Musings

So, which way do you see the dancer turning?

So maudlinrose and I were talking after dinner and we decided that we're actually pretty grateful for the year or two after university working in shitty jobs.

From early 2005 - mid 2006, I worked at the Bolton Hotel as a cleaner. I'd just washed out of teacher's college and had no idea what I wanted to do with my life instead. Glancing over a few of my posts from that time I don't seem to be talking about work much; more about what I was feeling and doing the rest of the time.

I seem so young!

It's not the work I remember from those years (although the techniques in cleaning bathrooms have not been forgotten), but the gaming, the people, the putting my head straight and getting on with my life. The mental space to be someone other than a student.

And yes, money was tight and for the most part I lived in a really crappy flat. But I remember being happy. I grew into myself some more. I appreciate that time.

So, who else has had a crappy job that was actually worth it?